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Vehicle 56373 / 54373


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630

Allocations

25/09/58 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
2w/e 12/01/63 Transferred to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
w/e 04/09/77 Transferred to CA (Cambridge)
Jun-87 Withdrawn from CA (Cambridge)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56373 - original number
54373 - from Sep-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 26/08/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51215 56373 As delivered to 53C - 25th September 1958
51215 56373 Transfer to South Gosforth - 2w/e 12/01/63
51443 56373 Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1
50248 56373 Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle2
50248 56373 Noted 09/06/73 - at Thornaby3
51212 56373 Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds1
51212 56373 Noted 28/08/74 - at Carlisle3
51212 56373 Noted 07/01/75 - at York3
51212 56373 Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central3
51212 56373 Noted 06/11/75 - at Brough1
51212 56373 Noted 23/02/76
51212 56373 Noted 03/04/76 - in Newcastle Central3
51225 56373 Noted 30/08/1979 - At Hitchin Depot4
51225 56373 Noted 02/08/80 - on 15.53 Cambridge - Peterborough
51225 54373 Noted circa 12/19845
51225 54373 Noted 25/06/85 - at Norwich3
51225 54373 Listed at Cambridge - circa Nov-85
51225 54373 Noted 07/02/19865
51225 54373 Listed at Cambridge - Summer 1986
08 51225 54373 Formed at CA circa Jun-86
51225 54373 Noted 27/10/88 - on 07:47 Banbury - Marylebone6

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: David Bellamy

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Carlisle

Unknown date

A two-car Met-Camm set in Carlisle station with a Newcastle service. Circa 1970s, E56373 closest was a South Gosforth vehicle until 1977 when it moved to Cambridge. Walter Burt Collection.

Class 101 DMU at Abbots Ripton

2nd May 1979

E56373 leads this two-car refurbished Class 101 set at Abbots Ripton on May 2, 1979, heading for Hitchin. Steve Davies Collection.

Class 101 DMU at Sandy

8th May 1987

Set number: 08

A grubby Met-Camm set 08 (presumably 54373 + 51225) with the 15:55 Hitchin - Huntingdon prepares to depart Sandy (1625) Friday 8th May 1987. Colin Brooks.

Class 101 DMU at Hitchin

8th May 1987

Set number: 08

101 Set CA08 (presumably 54373 + 51225) with the 15:55 Hitchin - Huntingdon arriving into Hitchin (at 16:00) on Friday 8th May 1987. This was the last weekday of DMU working between Hitchin and Huntingdon. Set CA11 is in the sidings. Colin Brooks.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: February 1976

Alston, February 1976. At 12:30pm, cars 51212 56373 wait to return to Haltwhistle. Original slide says M 22/02/1976, but that date is a Sunday and the timetable for the period had no Sunday services on the branch... on a weekday, the next departure would be 1245 Alston-Haltwhistle. The branch was closed within three months of this slide being taken. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: 2nd August 1980

On Saturday August 2nd 1980, the 15.53 Cambridge - Peterborough service is formed of Cambridge allocated Met-Cam E51225 + E56373 when seen at March West Jn. These sets had been refurbished and were normally found on the Cambridge - Royston or Bishop's Stortford shuttles with only occasional forays elsewhere. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 9th March 1985

Set number: 74

Cambridge with 54373/51225 on the left, with 53215/54368 to the right ahead of class 114, 53046/54030. 9 March 1985. Rob Paterson.

DMU

Date: 12th August 1987

E53363, E54376 and E54373 withdrawn at Ely yard, August 12, 1987. Nicholas Youngman.